Slug problem gnawing at your garden?

Michigan has a rogue’s gallery of snails and slugs that are not native to the state and that are invasive pests, or could become so, if allowed to proliferate.

Donning garden gloves and handpicking them from the surfaces of hostas and other succulent foliage and flowers can be effective, albeit time-consuming and, well, icky.

Some gardeners swear by beer-baited traps buried at ground level to attract and drown snails and slugs that fall into them. (Actually, you could just use a sugar-water and yeast mixture instead of beer because it is the fermented part of the product that attracts these pests.) However, for the amount of work involved, beer traps aren’t very effective unless you place lots of them and add fresh beer every few days.

And why waste beer on slugs? Call Greenlawn to address your slug problems, and have a cold beer for yourself!

Why not invest all that time and effort in garden activities with a bigger and more beautiful payoff?

Assign your garden slug problem to the pros at Greenlawn. For control of slugs we apply a granular product to the beds and on the leaves of the plants. The product we use is metaldehyde, an organic compound. It is commonly used as a pesticide against slugs, snails, and other gastropods.